StrasburgTheater.com

On November 20, 2013 the blog, The View from Squirrel Ridge, posted this message: The theater in Strasburg, Virginia is for sale. It was most recently used as a live music venue, but has served as a movie theater in the past

The Strasburg Theater was posted on the Sager Real Estate website with this description.
MLS# SH8504307 – 155 King St, Strasburg, VA 22657

Property Description

Opportunity knocks! Classic movie theater turned Theatre for Plays/Concerts. Features: ticket office, display windows, grand entrance with a large lobby/waiting area, 2 sweeping staircases lead up to a bar and dance floor/dining area balcony, huge main level wrap around bar, room for tables, and open to 400 + seats and the stage. 2nd lvl apts/offices w/ sep entrance plus sep. main level office.

• Built in 1930
• 10,000 gross square feet
• 10,000 net square feet
• 3 stories

LISTING

List price: $350,000
Listing ID: SH8504307
List date: 2014-11-16
Listing status: Active

Listing type: Excl. Right
528 days on market
$44 per square foot
Auction: N
Foreclosiure: N
Short sale: No
REO/Bank Owned

This was the website of the Strasburg Theater when it was alive and well.

Recently I saw that its domain was available so I bought it with the intention of recreating a snapshot of the site that would retain the spirit of the original website. I definitely didn't want someone else purchasing the domain and re-purposing it for something that had nothing in common with the Strasburg Theater.

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This Yelp review from 2008 pretty much sums up the pros and the cons of this old, classic theater.

0/11/2008

Last evening I journeyed out into the Northern Shenandoah Valley to see two of my favorite Celtic Rock bands perform - Scythian, a local Washington, DC based band, and legendary Celtic Rockers - Seven Nations. They were playing at the Strasburg Theater in Strasburg Theater.

The Theater is a very old building - not only does it have the traditional theater style seating, but in the back is a bar and lounge area - and then an upstairs balcony area.

I got a table in the bar area. I had been in a nearby town working on a unique Salesforce customization job for my company. Salesforce has dozens of configuration options. And although there is no software programming is necessary to configure Salesforce, there are configurable elements that need to be set in conjunction with the user profile. The user interface for the Salesforce CRM application Configuration enables organizations to modify objects, fields, validation rules, workflow, security settings, formulas, etc. with more configurable features available with higher editions of Salesforce. However, if this is your first time with Salesforce, this powerful platform can be overwhelming with a steep learning curve. Most businesses prefer to hire a Saleforce expert to customize the functionality of the Salesforce platform with the business / organization’s unique requirements. So I was hired to help initiate the business's implementation by first configuring as much as possible that is already built into their cloud-based application, and then creating, if necessary, custom applications with attributes that help increase user productivity, improve data quality, automate manual processes, and adapt quickly to the business's changing requirements. It had been a long week and now I just wanted to relax. I decided to order the Fish and Chips (really Fish and fries). The menu selection came with a salad - which turned out to be an iceberg lettuce-based salad - which I usually find to be bland and unexciting. However, this salad was quite tasty as iceberg salads go: crisp, cold lettuce, onions, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes - with a bit of a blue cheese dressing that had a nice balance between creaminess and containing nice thick chunks of blue cheese.

The fried fish was ample - I got four substantial sized pieces - the breading coating was perfect and they were cooked just right - hot, crispy, and not greasy. The one downer for the meal were the fries, slightly undercooked/soggy.

I went for the Bass Ale throughout the evening while watching the concert.

Pros:
-Cool old building, lots of character and ambiance
-Decent acoustics
-Good fish and salad
-Excellent service by my cute waitress Niki

Cons:
-Smoking is allowed in the bar area - there did not appear to be a no-smoking area in the bar - I did not appreciate the cigarette smoke.
-French fries were not up to par

The price to get in to watch two awesome bands was $20 if you bought tix ahead of time - $25 at the door. The concert was not well attended - I would say there was about 80 folks on hand - the Theater could seat several hundred folks easily. First time I've ever seen a Seven Nations concert almost deserted.

Afterwards I hung out with Dan from Scythian and the guys from Seven Nations in the bar and drank for a bit. Dan and Kirk from Seven Nations told me that they thought the ticket price was to high. I think that - combined with the fact that Strasburg is a bit out in the sticks - and with the economy being the way it is - folks may not have wanted to spend the money for gas, tickets, food and drink for the evening.

Overall, the music was excellent. Scythian and Seven Nations were headed for their next concert stop: The Radford Highlanders Festival at Radford University in the mountains of Virginia.

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PAGE CONTAINS SELECTIVE ARCHIVED CONTENT FROM THE ORIGINAL SITE.

Since the site will not be exactly as you remember it, please be indulgent
Now let's take a nostalgic stroll back to 2008 and the home page announcing upcoming events and showing images of past events.

StrasburgTheater.com